I Came Home to Find a Very Unfamiliar Piece of Furniture. Then I Learned Exactly What My Husband Had Agreed To.

Dear Prudence Prudie chats with Lizzie O’Leary, host of What Next: TBD, about a divisive family tradition. Aug 13, 20262:36 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Each week, exclusively for Slate Plus members, Prudie discusses a new letter with a fellow Slate colleague. Have a question for Prudie? Submit it here. Dear Prudence, My husband’s cousin and his wife are about to have a baby boy, and while I am happy for them, something happened recently that has thrown my otherwise healthy relationship with my husband into a tailspin. My husband was raised Jewish but is no longer practicing, and I’m not Jewish. His family was disappointed that he stray